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[–] Sacha 11 points 1 year ago

The thing is, most of the accounts participating this year were bots made specifically for this. Yes it's a burst of traffic, but it's a burst of traffic that will drop off a cliff as soon as it's over.

The botting was so bad this year that a small community or a single person couldn't do anything, I tried to mess around with an 8 pixel space and as soon as I put a pixel down, it was undone.

The Germans had something like 50k or more bots set up for this. That's why there were so many German flags everywhere.